Get web design ideas & inspiration from other designs – Brown

The aim of this post is to gain design inspiration and ideas from what others have already done, some times its best not to reinvent the wheel and see what others are doing to make there designs work.

Sometimes you can take an idea such as how the navigation looks or how the page has been separated in to different sections and build on this to produce your own variation or new concept.

I’ve managed to compile various websites that look particularly interesting and have certain design elements to get designers thinking about what they could include in there next design.

Points to consider:

How the pages are split up, how the content is separated from other content e.g. a dashed line, change of colour

How the navigation is structured and presented in the design.

Colours that have been used in the designs

I’ve created Photoshop colour swatches of all the designs so if you feel that you want to play around with a certain colour you can download them here

I would be interested to know how other people analyse designs to get inspiration and what they look for Inperticular in a design, please leave a comment.

Most of these screens are based on a brown and earthy theme, most of the designs are not live sites and are just concepts, i thought it would be best to categorise any additional posts in this way to see how colours are used and what colours complement the designs.

Im not saying these designs are perfect and every ones a critic, but they have some cool design features that could be useful to any one wanting to get some good ideas.

I am the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources. I hope you find them as interesting and useful as I do. By day I am a UX focused product designer.